This is how a lot of parents are packing lunch for their kids:
Fancy lunch:
What I pack:
It seems that with each year I’m a parent another craze pops up. I’m just…look, I’m old school. I don’t care if Bento lunches are in. There is nothing wrong with a regular sandwich with no face on it.
This is very cool:
But mine wouldn’t come out that neat, I assure you.
I don’t have the patience to do a Bento lunch. I barely have the patience to prepare the lunch I do make. It’s great if a parent wants to make an elaborate lunch.
But me?
I’ll stick to a sandwich with no face. (On white bread. The horror!)
Who had time to put smiley faces on their food these days? There are too many blogs to read instead!
ReplyDeleteI'm right there with you! I don't have the time or patience....or desire to spend time putting faces on food! My poor child and her boring lunches.
ReplyDeleteI never had time to make fancy lunches. As a single mom getting me and the kid out the door was more important. And if he wanted to buy the lunch offered, all that much better! lol
ReplyDeleteYour lunches are just fine. Healthy and made with love. What more can be asked?
Have your kids complained? Food looks fine to me.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya! 90% of the stuff I would need to make those fancy lunches, my daughter wouldn't eay anyway. Sandwich, fruit, and a snack is good enough for us!
ReplyDeleteWell I see nothing wrong with the way you pack the kids lunches and I'm sure they're none the wiser on the bento lunch. My son, who is a Senior this year, chooses to carry his sandwich on white bread, to school in a plastic Walmart grocery bag - oh nooooo what kind of parent would allow this? That would be me! If he doesn't care, why should I? Ha! Keep up the great work, mom!!
ReplyDeleteBella had lunch from home for two years. Sandwiches with homemade bread! Everyday! Every stinkin' day I baked bread!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd all she wanted was the cruddy school lunch, like everyone else. So this year she got her wish!
(Ungrateful child!!!)
Yeah, that's just what I need to add in to our already crazy morning. A complicated artsy lunch that is expensive and that my kid wouldn't eat anyway. And we only have to be out by 8:30. When my son starts "real" school? I'm really going to explore eating lunch the night before and just giving him a couple 5 Hour Energy's. That's good parenting, right?
ReplyDeleteWho has time for that? :-)
ReplyDeletewho has the time for that? I have a feeling I'll be of the keep an extra stash of cash in their backpack because mom forgot to pack lunch again variety :)
ReplyDeleteMy kids come home for lunch! I don't need to pack them! Isn't that fabulous?
ReplyDeleteI see those fancy lunches all over pinterest and I'm all WTH?! Who DOES that? Dracen takes his lunch but the fanciest I'm able to pull off at 6:30 a.m. is to roll up some ham and cheese slices and stick some toothpicks in them. Works for him!
ReplyDeleteCome on, now, you know you're not a good mom unless you put a smiley face on their sandwich!
ReplyDeleteYes, yes and yes! My kids buy lunch. And if they want something else, they need to make it themselves (hence the buying of the lunch!). There are so many blogs and then pinterest that to me just wants to make the rest of us feel lacking. There was a blog I was looking at the other day that actually did printables for 'happy first day of school' in their home made breakfast. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteFancy lunches are cute and all, but you won't be seeing any of those around my place either. Around here, we're lazy.
ReplyDeleteThat seems like a lot of time for a school lunch. I can see maybe making it for a birthday or a special lunch at home, but for school? Do kids even care if their lunch has a happy face on it? I know I didn't. I was always happy if my mom packed a cookie as a treat instead of something healthy.
ReplyDeleteThose things CRACK ME UP. I mean...really? Who does that?
ReplyDeleteLOL! My lunches look a lot like yours. People actually cut the bread with cookie cutters and make pretty pictures and stuff. I just don't have the time for that kind'a stuff.. or patience lol.
ReplyDeleteLoved this post.
Seriously? Who the heck has time for those sandwiches? The most effort I would do is cut out the sandwich with a knife or cookie - cutter. I just bought one of elmo. Of course, this is for my GRANDDAUGHTER. My kids never got something like that!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh.... you have to be kidding! You don't do the fancy lunches?? I wouldn't either! How much of those fancy lunches end up in the trash anyway??
ReplyDelete~~~kimmer
By the time they open it in the lunch room it looks nothing like the picture. It moves in their backpack, gets thrown around, tossed in a bucket (where I live we have buckets or bins for home lunch), and then thrown on the table. It is cute, but a waste of time. :)
ReplyDeleteGirllll I am with you! My son is only in preschool, but parents provide the snack for the class once a month. I'm all butter crackers while some other mom is making butterflies out of carrot sticks. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteI'm half asleep when I pack lunches in the morning, there is no way I would ever do something like that.
ReplyDeleteWho has the time?
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Now, how would anyone have time for that kind of ridiculousness.
ReplyDeleteI am convinced that no real people actually do it. Those must be made by people without kids who don't have to do any chores. And they just post them to try to make the rest of us feel bad. But the jokes on them. I am too tired to care what my food looks like as long as its edible.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, the kids just want to dive in to eat lunch. I don't think they admire or appreciate the efforts the way we all might. I work in a lunchroom as a guard, helping students with their lunches, following rules,etc...I see them picking those lunches apart of all the things they don't "FEEL' like eating that day.
ReplyDeletenow that my daughter is in JK, coming up with interesting lunches are now part of my daily struggle.
ReplyDeletethose pictures you posted are way cool but the lunches she gets are very similar to what you pack however, i just use cookie cutter shapes for her sandwiches to make them somewhat interesting and fun.... although going by those pics, i'm clearly not doing it right :(
Haha - I don't get it. If you put the cheese on the outside of the sandwich & peeled the fruit just to make it look cutesy - the cheese & fruit would be dry & gross by lunchtime. I'll take a plain yummy sandwich over a crusty cute sandwich any day!
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